I just hadn't been paying attention."Anyway, we spent a lot of time together this past weekend, and she told me how much she missed me. We had spent a...lot of time together growing up and have always done everything together. I realized that I missed her too. Anyway, we're back together again." You got her away from two football players? Jimmy, I know most of them. Even the smallest of them outweigh you by at least fifty pounds. How could you do that?" Mr. Sheffield asked."I whacked them with my. ‘Mother don’ne worry. I trust her completely tae keep it safe wi’ her, as she trusts me wi’ her cross.’ he told his mother, hoping to dissuade her worries his life was in peril without the talisman. ‘Garreth, my heart would rest easier knowing it was wi’ ye, protecting ye.’ Garreth looked at Peadair, who shrugged his shoulders, causing Garreth to give him a look of despondency at his lack of help. ‘The Almighty will watch o’er me, Mother. Don’t let yerself get intae a state o’er this.’ Garreth. He wanted me to stay and work on my master’s and maybe get married. I felt I needed to have a life of my own before I started sharing it with anyone.’ ‘Did you love him?’ ‘I thought I did until I met Andre’. Now that was a torrid love affair! That man had me wrapped up, mind, body and soul. He was a user though. I got tired of supporting him while he fucked every model he had pose for him. Right now I’m dating a struggling playwright. He’s had a couple of Off-Broadway plays that were pretty. But we're inside a time loop. It's a self-organizing phenomenon, a driven system with positive feedback. The time loop is allowing the future to influence the past. The future is self focusing in order to be in a state where it hands off reality to the past at loop reset. Within the restrictions of loop reset, we still have free will. But there are some things we're powerless to change..."Isabelle spoke up. "Think of a hurricane mom. That's a self organizing phenomenon too. You see it coming,.